Chocolate-cutter.



No. 820,633. PATENTED MAY l5, 1906. L. H. da P. J. FINNEGAN.

CHOCOLATE GUTTER.

APPIfIoATIoN FILED JULY. 1904.

LOUIS H. FINNEGAN AND FRANK J. FINNEGAN, OF MINNEAPOLIS,

MINNESOTA.

CHOCOLATE-CUTTER.

Specificationv of Letters Patent.

Patented May 15, 1906.

Application led July 5, 1904. Serial No. 215,206.

To @ZZ whom t may cancel/'11,:

Be it known that we, LoUIs H. FINNEGAN and lFRANK J. FINNEGAN, ofMinneapolis, Hennepin county, Minnesota, have invented certain new anduseful Improvements in Chocolate-Cutters, of which the following is aspecification.

The object of my invention is to simplify and improve thechocolate-cutter shown and described in Letters Patent of the UnitedStates No. 713,270, issued November 11, 1902, to J. F. Wynkoop.

The invention consists generally in providing a force-feed device.

Further, the invention consists in providing pivoted throat-plates onthe knife-cylinder, and, further, the invention consists in variousconstructions and combinations, all as hereinafter described, andparticularly pointed out in the claims.

In the accompanying drawings, forming part of this specification, Figure1 is a rear view of a chocolate-cutter embodying our invention. Fig. 2is a vertical transverse section of the same. Fig. 3 is a plan view ofthe knife-cylinder. a: x of Fig. 3. Fig. 5 is a transverse section ofthe knife-cylinder.

In the drawings, 2 represents a casing having a neck 3 at its upper endwherein the block or cake of chocolate is placed. A cover 4 is hinged atits lower end to the casing and adapted to be swung out to allow theinsertion or removal of the cake of chocolate and the knife-cylinder.This cover is substantially the same as the one shown and described inthe Letters Patent above referred to and needs no detailed descriptionherein.

A drawer or box 5 is provided in the lower part of the casing to receivethe chocolate, and slots 6 'are provided in the walls of the casing toreceive a shaft 7, whereon the knifecylinder is mounted. This cylinderconsists of heads 8, secured on the shaft and having lugs 9 atintervals, that are inserted into slots 10 in the ends of theknife-blades 11 and headed therein, holding the knives firmly in placein the cylinder. vided with cutting edges 12, that are adapted to engagethe lower end of the cake of chocolate and slice or shave the same. Weprefer to provide openings 13 between the cutting edge of one knife andthe rear edge of the preceding knife, and these openingsrare pref- Fig.4 is a section on the line The knives are proerably bridged byextensions 14, which prevent the cake of chocolate from becoming wedgedin the cylinder, but allow the cut or shaved portions thereof to fallthrough.

At intervals preferably on opposite sides of the cylinder we providethroat-plates 15, supported on pivot-pins 16 and adapted to drop down toa vertical position, as indicated in Fig. 5, and allow the freedischarge of any of the chocolate that may have accumulated within thecylinder. These Athroat-plates will drop to this position only when onthe under side of the cylinder and will swin back within the peripheryof the cylinder w en it is revolved to bring them to the upper sidethereof.

We find it desirable in a device of this kind to provide some means forfeeding the chocolate down to the knives. We therefore provide anangle-plate 17, arranged to overhang the upper end of the cake ofchocolate and engage the same and provided with lugs 18, that extendthrough a vertical slot 19 in the back of the casing and are secured toa clip 20. The operator can by pressing on this clip force the cake ofchocolate down upon the knife-cylinder with suicient pressure to cut thechocolate as fast as desired.

Ve claim as our invention- 1. In a chocolate-cutter, the combinationwith a casing having an upright contracted neck provided with a verticalcentrally-arranged slot, of van angle-plate 17 extendingtransverselywith respect to said slot and having a flange extendingpartially across said neck toward the front thereof and adapted tooverhang the upper end of a cake of chocolate therein, and the otherflange fitting against the rear wall of said neckon the inside andslidable thereon, a clip 20 fitting the rear wall of said neck on theoutside and connected to the last-named flange through said slot andslidable therewith and having an outwardly-turned finger-piece, and arevoluble cutter arranged below said neck, substantially as described.

2. In a chocolate-cutter, a knife-cylinder comprising a shaft, headsmounted thereon, knives secured at their ends at intervals to theperipheries of said heads and having a IOO on the drum side of saidcylinder, the rest of said knives having eaoh a series of extensions Inwitness whereof We have herento set on its rear side partially bridgingthe space our hands this 29th day of June, 1904.

between the back edge of one knife and the LOUIS H. FINNEGAN.corresponding edge of the contiguous one to FRANK J. FINNEGAN. preventthe cake of chocolate from becoming In presence ofwedged in thecylinder, but allowing the RICHARD PAUL,V shaved portions thereof tofall through. M. HAGERTY.

